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Here it is! I will be posting most of my entries over there, at least while I'm in China. Please watch and enjoy.

Pandora radio is not available from China. However, I would not like to be confined to only the music I brought with me on my hard drive. Any suggestions? Caveat: I dislike Last.fm.

Okay, so I want to post more. Maybe tonight I will put up my new blog here on livejournal. We have been so, so, so busy. I stopped posting on Linguathon because what can I write? "Today everyone around me spoke Chinese all day long ( Read more... )

We switched rooms because the first one had many problems. The new one also has many problems, some of which can be fixed. Donald is scrubbing mold off the wall behind the bed, and also off the headboard of the bed. It could have happened in America, too, I think ( Read more... )

Hello World.
I live in China now. Guess what? China is dirty. Except Wal-Mart, which is immaculately clean.
There will be more later.

Dear Diary,
Today I'm moving to China.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Love,
Kristina

I feel a little bit heartbroken. I just sold my bike, and you know I don't have even a single photo of myself riding it. Just the stupid craigslist photo. I keep feeling like I want to go out to the garage, but why? No more sweet little blue and white Raleigh cruiser to take me up to campus or the Amazon Creek trail or even two blocks to god damn ( Read more... )

I dreamed the I owned a dragon whom I could summon by writing his name in the air with a magic crow-quill pen. A blue-grey Asian dragon would appear out of nowhere and I would jump on his back, grab onto his mane and we'd fly away. If I didn't send him back to the other dimension, eventually he would run out of energy and crumple to dust, but it ( Read more... )

Back when I was studying Russian, I looked everywhere for Russian music I could listen to, mostly to no avail. Russian pop music, unfortunately, is like a parody of American pop-music. Their videos even feature rappers wearing NY baseball caps ( Read more... )

We will be leaving for China in less than three weeks, on August 17. Apart from many things to take care of, such as selling all our furniture, getting the residency permit worked out, and trying to learn as much Chinese language as possible, I feel sort of in limbo. The future after August 17 is a black void, a cloudy crystal ball ( Read more... )